TAWDRY WEDDINGS
DEAN SPEAKS OUT “FIT FOR CHEAP STAGE” RING A MERE BAUBLE “It is difficult to say what one feels about the weddings one sometimes sees to-day—extravagant, tawdry, more fit for the cheap stage than the House of God. Even the wedding ring has degenerated into a bauble of unimpressive prettiness in place of the impressive symbol worn by our mothers,” states a correspondent writing last month. These remarks were made by the Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. W. A. Palmer, in a sermon at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The dean roundly condemned some methods of sex education employed to-day and, entitling his address “Preparation for Life,” commented also on the absence of any moral obligation on the part of some section' of young people in the borrowing of money. “An amazing amount of credit may be obtained by boys just out of their ’teens,” declared the dean.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 137, 11 June 1937, Page 2
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